Help WCI cross the finish line with Project Heart Uganda as we race into the new year! We need to raise $25,000 to complete our project. These funds will help us: 1. Perform our last Project Heart: Uganda Clinical Service & Training Trip as we encourage our colleagues to move from 50 independent cases (2015)…
In 2010, we initiated Project Heart by bringing Gift, a 5 year-old Ugandan girl, to Washington, D.C. to fix her heart. At that time there was no way of treating children like Gift anywhere in east Africa without risky surgical procedures. By performing pediatric cardiac catheterization, doctors in the U.S. (including WCI’s Dr. Kanishka Ratnayaka)…
In the fall of 2010, WCI flew Gift, a 5 year-old Ugandan girl, and her mother to Washington, D.C. to repair a hole and an abnormal blood vessel in Gift’s heart that was overwhelming her lungs and taxing her heart. If these defects had been left uncorrected, Gift would have developed heart failure and lived…
WCI is currently developing a fund designed to bolster educational opportunities for children through scholarships and curricular programs. The fund honors the life work of the late Dr. Shanta Ratnayaka, professor of religious studies at the University of Georgia, dedicated husband and father, and humble humanitarian. Further details on The Shanta Educational Fund will be…
With our maiden initiative, PROJECT PEDS: Sri Lanka, WCI raised approximately $1,000,000 (USD) to design and develop a new 155-bed, tertiary care, children’s hospital in an area of southern Sri Lanka devastated by the Asian Tsunami of late 2004. This new pediatric facility houses specialized intensive care units for children and infants. It will be…
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